Sentence examples for called for holy from inspiring English sources
Addressed to Ms. Hirsi Ali, the letter called for holy war against the West and, more specifically, for her death.
Lebanese news agencies said the Sidon clash had pitted fighters loyal to a militant Sunni cleric, Sheik Ahmad al-Assir, who has called for holy war against Mr. Assad, against armed members of Hezbollah occupying buildings in the Abra district of Sidon, which Sheik Assir's loyalists have historically controlled.
The Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood called for holy war against the Assad government.
Some Senegalese Muslims called for holy war against the French occupation, but Bamba was a pacifist whose only jihad was fought against the corruption of his own individual soul.
Thousands gathered near the Church of the Nativity to hear speakers call for holy war and martyrdom in the struggle against Israel.
Abu Hamza faces 11 charges in the US, relating to hostage taking, conspiracy to establish a militant training camp and calling for holy war in Afghanistan.
Mr. Masri faces 11 counts relating to a hostage-taking in Yemen in 1998, calling for holy war in Afghanistan in 2001 and participation in an attempt to establish a militant training camp at Bly, Ore., between June 2000 and December 2001.
American prosecutors want him to face charges of calling for holy war in Afghanistan, involvement in kidnappings in Yemen and participating in a plot to set up a terrorism training camp in Bly, Ore.
Abu Hamza now faces 11 charges in a Manhattan Federal District Court ranging from calling for holy war in Afghanistan to attempting to set up a terrorism training camp in Oregon.
It pits the senior, established clergy who counsel tolerance toward the occupation against a younger, militant faction that wants to found an Islamic state modeled on Iran and has stopped just short of calling for holy war against American troops.
An Arab television station broadcast a new audiotape that it said had been made by Saddam Hussein in which he mixed invective against Israel, calls for holy war and curses on American and other foreign occupation troops in Iraq.
